I have recently setup a VMware ESXi server and have installed a Linux server on it. SSH is working properly as I can putty into it and it is using the same username nad password all my other linux servers have but the spiceworks network scan is not picking it up. Any suggestions?

VMWare ESXi is not a standard Linux install and does not contain all of the same commands and utilities that, say, Red Hat, Fedora, Suse, etc. would have that are used for scanning. Also, be aware that you are NOT scanning ESXi itself but are instead scanning a virtual machine running Linux on top of ESXi so the information that you are going to get from there can be very confusing. ESXi is a hypervisor and does not run on Linux but Linux runs on it.

I do not believe that ESXi can populate SpiceWorks - at least without custom software installs just for that purpose. You should switch to using SNMP for this rather than SSH, I believe.

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VMWare ESXi is not a standard Linux install and does not contain all of the same commands and utilities that, say, Red Hat, Fedora, Suse, etc. would have that are used for scanning. Also, be aware that you are NOT scanning ESXi itself but are instead scanning a virtual machine running Linux on top of ESXi so the information that you are going to get from there can be very confusing. ESXi is a hypervisor and does not run on Linux but Linux runs on it.

I do not believe that ESXi can populate SpiceWorks - at least without custom software installs just for that purpose. You should switch to using SNMP for this rather than SSH, I believe.

The SNMP vs. SSH here is because SSH requires a lot of installed resources taht are not available on ESX(i). SSH is just a connection method and just connecting isn't enough, you need the underlying commands to be in place for it to work.

SNMP is often used by network devices but is not installed "on the network" - it is a communications protocol used peer to peer. So yes, any device that can have SNMP can communicate to SpiceWorks on your network regardless of its use elsewhere on your network.

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